How Does Ceo Age Affect Firm Risk?
Asia-Pacific journal of financial studies(2017)
Abstract
Previous research demonstrates that older CEOs are associated with lower firm equity risk and fewer R&D expenditures. We examine the risk-taking behavior of CEOs and find that not only do older CEOs invest in less R&D, they do so sub-optimally, in the sense that CEO age distorts the effect of q on R&D investment decisions. We find that it is specifically through the channel of R&D investment that CEO age is associated with the reduction in firm equity risk. Consistent with the sub-optimality of these distortions, firms with more effective corporate governance do not exhibit these associations.
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Key words
CEO age,Corporate governance,Idiosyncratic risk,R&D expenditure,Systematic risk
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